View 4 images in sequence. - Significance: The Bingham Canyon Mine was the first open pit copper mine in the U.S. and, according to company literature, it has produced more copper than any other mine in history. Metallic ore was first discovered in Bingham canyon in 1863, but the first commercial shipment of copper ore did not occur until 1896.

Creation and Erasure: Art of the Bingham Canyon Mine, on view May 30–September 28, presents more than 100 paintings, drawings, prints and photographs created by artists from around the country since the mine’s earliest days.

Part of a proposal for the reclamation of the world’s largest man-made excavation, this sketch outlines the design for a rotating disk at the base of Bingham Canyon Mine in Bingham, Utah. The disk serves as a platform from which viewers could observe the gradual reversal of …

Historic American Engineering Record images of Utah - Drawings; Bingham Canyon Mine

English: Media related to the Bingham Canyon Mine (more commonly known as Kennecott Copper Mine among locals), an open-pit mining operation extracting a large porphyry copper deposit Bingham Canyon in the Oquirrh Mountains southwest of …

Photo, Print, Drawing Bingham Canyon, Utah. Overall view of an open-pit mine of the Utah Copper Company showing railroads, buildings, trestle bridge, and mountains of ore digital file from original neg.

2014年8月28日 · Comprised of over 80 paintings, drawings, and photographs from a wide array of artists spanning 1873 to the present, this exhibition is bound to offer plenty of unique interpretations of the mine with art ranging from traditional, to modern, to contemporary.

2014年5月30日 · "Creation and Erasure: Art of the Bingham Canyon Mine" displays more than 100 works — paintings, drawings, prints and photographs — that evoke the history, industry and environmental impact...

How many views does it take to depict the steady, human-formed creation of absence on the land? In the case of Utah Museum of Fine Art’s (UMFA) current exhibition Creation and Erasure: Art of the Bingham Canyon Mine, the answer is over one hundred. This well-researched, historical view of the mine — Donna Poulton’s last exhibition as the ...

Photo, Print, Drawing Bingham Canyon, Utah. Drilling blast holes with a rock-drill machine in an open-pit mine operated by the Utah Copper Company